Parole denied for perpetrators in notorious San Diego rape, murder cases
One inmate was denied parole for a three-year period. The other, who tried to pass off a killing as a home invasion, was denied for five years.
Dante Ulanday - News Moderator 
Two prison inmates serving life sentences for high-profile San Diego County crimes were denied parole Wednesday.
Robert Dean Rustad, known as the “Del Mar Rapist,” is serving a 326-years-to-life prison sentence for raping multiple women between 1992 and 1996.
Rustad, along with Aerith Asora, who was convicted, along with sister Brae Hansen, of killing stepfather and local attorney Timothy MacNeil, were eligible for early parole hearings due to changes to state law.
Those law changes altered the parole eligibility for inmates who are 50 years of age or older and have served at least 20 years, as well as inmates who were under the age of 25 when they committed the crime.
The San Diego County District Attorney’s Office opposed both inmates’ releases.
On Wednesday, Rustad was denied parole for a three-year period, while Asora was denied parole for five years.
Rustad, who was between 19 and 22 years old at the time of the rapes, was denied youthful parole last year and is no longer eligible to receive it.
Wednesday’s hearing was granted pursuant to the elder parole law because Rustad is 51 years old and has spent over 20 years in prison.
Prosecutors said he broke into seven women’s homes, then sexually assaulted or raped six of them, with some of the victims tied up and threatened at knifepoint.
Asora was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison, but received an expedited parole hearing under the youthful parole law for being 19 years old at the time of the murder.
Prosecutors said Asora, formerly known as Nathan Gann, and Hansen staged their stepfather’s 2007 killing as a home invasion robbery. Asora shot MacNeil four times at their Rolando Village residence. Hansen was denied parole earlier this year.
